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Near Misses When On Your Bike!

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Biot, Dec 29, 2020.

  1. As title:
    With the prevalence of POV cameras these days I thought this might become an interesting thread.
    My offer is a very close shave this summer whilst out on my 899. In the last 10 years it was the first time I’d seen a deer on that stretch of road. It was obviously deaf too. (17.57.16sec in).
     
  2. Oooft

    you just don’t think about things like that do you!

    I’ve had a few on the road, mostly when I was ‘greener’.
     
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  3. If I was on the GS I wouldn’t have noticed it as the front wheel would have squished it.
    On the Pani I think I’d have been in a hedge if we’d made contact:(
     
  4. Had a few near misses with wildlife, worst though was an oncoming Ducati in the Lakes. Fker on my side of the road, both of us doing a few too many mph. Could feel the rush of wind he was so close.
     
  5. Last year had the tail feathers of a pheasant brush my visor after it decided to do a bit of low flying across my path as I was doing the legal limit . The old 1970’s tea towel holder was puckered up tighter than a snare drum ! Sorry no video of it though ( the close call I mean , not my bodily tension )
     
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  6. Too many stories when young on public roads but probably the worse was to fast into a left hand bend drifted out to the other side the road after the apex and ended up with the oncoming cars on my near side o_O
     
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  7. I did the very same thing within months of passing my test
     
  8. That's pretty terrifying!
     
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  9. It was a Muntjac by the looks of it and they’re bloody lethal semi-suicidal little beasts. I nearly hit one the other evening in the car and a mate once wrote off a 300zx by way of one embedding itself in the radiator and front cross-member, also destroying all of the ancillaries and pullies attached to the nose of the engine in the process. Thankfully it was killed outright and didn’t suffer.

    Glad you’re ok :upyeah:

    Bloody immigrants, comin’ over ‘ere, breeding faster than indigenous deer, eating our English rose bushes and throwing themselves under our wheels: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....-42k-road-accidents-breeding-faster-ever.html
     
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  10. Thing is I caught s glimpse of it on my left, up on the bank. So thought I, as it was stationary it had obviously seen & heard me. It proved me wrong.
    Have seen what a fully grown stag can do to a car; not pleasant at all.
     
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  11. Years back a lad local to me hit a deer on his X7, he and his girlfriend ended up very mangled. There isn’t much ‘give’ in a fully grown deer, I don’t tend to ride along the roads where they frequent. It’s made worse by some folk throwing food out for them in the hope of catching a glimpse every now and then.

    Think so far this year it’s at 149 deer collisions, partners seen a deer lose a leg sliced clean off by a car it attempted to jump. :(
     
  12. I had pigeon hit me square on the forehead! I was tucked in and accelerating hard.. the impact took me past sitting up vertical but I still held on with the very ends of my fingertips... very lucky.
     
  13. I ran over someone’s cat!
     
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  14. Cat killer Carr from now on in you butcher
     
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  15. I think it may well be they were forced over here by the ever brilliant Victorians not sure they have the ability to swim the channel. More humane to put them in proper boats and safely transport them over here, hang on I’ve an idea.....;)
     


  16. Similar happened when I was out riding with a mate and he hit a pheasant. He’s 6’4”, weighed about 20 stone back then and riding a Honda CB1300 at around 90mph so it was utterly obliterated, and I, riding behind him, was covered in its blood, flesh and feathers.

    I sometimes wonder why people bother to shoot pheasants tbh as most are so stupid that you could hit them with a brick :rolleyes:
     
  17. You could put them in a dinghy but then they’d have to roe.

    :D
     
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  18. Yeah the little bastard was asking for it!
     
  19. More than 90% of my riding is on rural roads, so there have been a few wildlife incidents over the years.
    Off the top of my head, I have hit Sparrowhawk, Woodpigeon - this was actually ON the top of my head at about 100mph - Rabbit, & Pheasant.
    Kills include Hare, Blackbird, Sparrow, Partridge and a Bat. (The Blackbird ripped the top union off the oil cooler on my GSX1100).
    Near misses - Roe Deer, Black Labrador, and a variety of humans when one or both of us were young and/or foolish.
     
  20. Rule of thumb around here is no riding for 1-2 hours around dusk and dawn. Guaranteed deer will be crossing the roads then (other times too but not so much). And where there is one, odds are there are more right behind it. Best move, if you see one and you can think fast enough, is to slow down or speed up and not swerve to avoid it. Running into a tree is usually more damaging or fatal.
    I nearly hit one in my Jeep Wrangler years ago. It couldn't gain much traction when it jumped onto the road, I braked enough to miss it by inches. It was close enough that we looked each other eye to eye. The fear was palpable.
    I was glad it was alone. I know someone that missed the first one only to have the second one run into the side of their car. Sometimes it's a no win situation.
     
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